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He's Green Lantern! Why can't he just use the ring to counteract the effects of the drug? He's just mucking about with the corpses because he's a perv, that's why. Either that or he never learned how to use the ring!

For the same reason all other heroes go through long, unnecessary and convuluted plans.

You'd think Clark Kent would have gotten fed up with Lois Lane's accusations that he is Superman and told her "Yeah, I'm never around when Superman is. So what? You could say the same about everyone else in Metropolis. By the way, where were YOU last time? I was looking for you..SUPERMAN."

But no...build a duplicate planet Earth with androids that mimic everyone Lois knows so Clark can fool her with some silly explanation.

I've always seen it as Alan Scott uses the ring less as a tool, as Kyle and Hal see it, than a gift of miracle. It's almost like Alan Scott feels the use of the ring cheapens the magic if it is used in a way that does not compliment reality. Think of the detective work as the ritual trappings of a spell (magic circle, talisman, spell book) and the effects of the ring are the resluts of the spell casting.

It was an era when a "sudden smell of force" signaled impending justice. An era when a dude with two years of pre-med classes at junior college could conduct an autopsy in a suit and tie and no smock and STILL kick the combined asses of an entire nation of investigators in a single night. In short, it was an era when non-superheroes were considerably dumber than rocks.